Keywords
non-chemical addiction
adjustment disorders
maladaptive states
maladaptive behavior
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Abstract
At the present stage of psychiatry development, proportion of maladaptive states and behavioral disorders is growing rapidly. Its problems relate to the section of psychiatry – "addiction psychiatry", systematically studies the forms, types, pathogenesis, therapy and prevention of addictive behavior, as well as the rehabilitation of addictive patients. The combination of maladaptive states with non-chemical addictions reveals many uncertain questions about the prevalence and structure of addictive disorders in adjustment disorders, algorithms for diagnostics, therapy and prevention, which necessitates research in this area. To achieve our aim a comprehensive survey 105 patients with maladaptive states in the structure of Internet addiction (addictive variant of maladaptation) were examined. Taking into account purpose of the study, medical psychological, clinical-psychopathological, psychodiagnostics and statistical methods were used in the research. During the study phenomenology of structural components of pathological desire to stay on the Internet was revealed: the ideational component was manifested by obsessive fantasizing about staying online, illusion of online time control, anticipation of being able to be online, personification of computer attributes, reduction of criticism: behavioral component was in conflicts, deviation from responsibilities and assignments, imitation of activity; emotional component was manifested by anxious-depressive symptoms during offline, incontinence of emotions, irritability. The key role in pathopsychological mechanisms of Internet addiction in the structure of maladaptive states belongs to the deactualization of basic personality needs, existence of an existential vacuum which leads to the formation of Internet addictive behavior, which allows to escape to the virtual world of formalized relationships.
Keywords: dependence, non-chemical addiction, adjustment disorders, maladaptive states, maladaptive behavior.
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